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JAZZ PIANO COLLECTIVE
Photo by Laura Littlejohn
THE JAZZ PIANO COLLECTIVE — (from left-to-right in the photo above) Steve Strunk, Steve Larson, Henry Martin, and Keith Waters — perform (in quartet, trio, duet, and solo combinations) the full spectrum of jazz styles, including improvisations as well as their own note-to-note transcriptions of famous recordings. The JPC has performed in England and the United States (including Albuquerque, Santa Barbara, and Eugene).
Waters and Larson play Scott Joplin's "Solace" (excerpt, 0:33)
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Strunk and Larson play Carmichael's "Indiana" and Parker's "Donna Lee" (excerpt, 0:34)
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Martin and Larson play Morgan's "Ceora" (excerpt, 0:40)
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The JPC plays Larson's transcription of Evans' overdub recording of "Stella by Starlight" (excerpt, 0:46)
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HENRY MARTIN is a professor of music at Rutgers University in Newark. His teachers have included Milton Babbitt and David Del Tredici. With a Ph.D. from Princeton University and degrees from the University of Michigan and Oberlin Conservatory, he has pursued a dual career as a composer-pianist and as a music theorist specializing in jazz and the Western tonal tradition. His Preludes and Fugues won the Barlow Endowment Competition for 1998 and the National Composers Competition sponsored by the League of Composers — International Society for Contemporary Music in 1991. Bridge Records released the second half of Preludes and Fugues with Martin as pianist in 2004 (Bridge 9140). As a theorist, Martin's recent books include Counterpoint (Scarecrow Press, 2005), Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation (Scarecrow Press, 1996) and a jazz history text, co-written with Keith Waters: Jazz, the First 100 Years (second ed., Wadsworth-Schirmer, 2005). His articles on music theory and jazz have appeared in numerous journals. He is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Jazz Studies, which is published by Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark. Henry Martin's new CD Chamber Music for Strings and Piano (performed by the Innisfree Piano Trio) is now available from Albany Records (TROY804) and can be purchased at albanyrecords.com or amazon.com. For more, visit Henry's web page. |
STEVEN STRUNK is Professor of Composition and Music Theory at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He studied with Luciano Berio and Vincent Persichetti at The Juilliard School. He has received multiple composition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and the Contemporary Music Forum. North/South Consonance and other groups have performed and recorded his works. As a jazz pianist, he has given solo recitals at the Kennedy Center and played with jazz and commercial groups throughout his career. He has published analytical articles on jazz in numerous scholarly journals and in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Steve Strunk's piece "Clones" for piano has been released on the CD Final Bell (N/S 1044) by Max Lifchitz, and is available at www.northsouthmusic.org. For more, visit Steve's university web page. |
KEITH WATERS is Associate Professor at the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a jazz pianist, he has recorded and performed throughout the United States, Europe, and in Russia, and has appeared in concert with jazz artists saxophonist James Moody, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, saxophonist Eddie Harris, and vocalists Sheila Jordan, Chris Connor, Carol Fredette, and Meredith D’Ambrosia, appearing in venues such as the Blue Note and the Village Gate in New York, and the Kennedy Center and Blues Alley in Washington DC. His playing has been featured in Jazz Player magazine, and his most recent recording is a Chet Baker tribute CD with former Baker sideman Phil Urso. Together with Henry Martin he has co-authored the book Jazz, the First 100 Years (second ed., Wadsworth-Schirmer, 2005). His book Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger was published by Ashgate Publications in 2002. He received a Ph.D. degree in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master’s of Music degree in Jazz Piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. To order Keith's CDs, click on the following links: Phil Urso and Carl Saunders Salute Chet Baker, Jon Metzger Quartet: The Spinner, Jon Metzger Quartet: Teach Me Tonight. For more, visit Keith's university web page. |
REPERTOIRE
Recent JPC programs have included a tour of jazz history through the piano, live re-creations of our transcriptions of overdub recordings from Bill Evans’ Conversations with Myself, and performances in every (solo, duet, trio, and quartet) combination of members.
Here is a list of pieces from one of our recent performances
“All The Things You Are”, by Jerome Kern
“(Back Home Again in) Indiana”, by Hoagie Carmichael & “Donna Lee”, by Charlie Parker
“Ballin’ the Jack”, by Chris Smith
“Blue Monk”, by Thelonious Monk
“Body and Soul”, by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, and John Green
“Ceora”, by Lee Morgan
“4:33”, by John Cage
“How About You?”, by Burton Lane
“Jitterbug Waltz”, by Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller
“NYC’s No Lark”, by Bill Evans
“Prelude and Fugue”, by Henry Martin
“’Round Midnight”, by Thelonious Monk
“Song of the Wind”, by Chick Corea
“Stella by Starlight”, by Victor Young
“Tiger Rag (Hold that Tiger)”, by Nick LaRocca, Larry Shields, Henry Ragas, and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, arr Steve Larson
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